Bonitas defends administrator switch after record financial results
Executives acknowledged the disruption caused by the June administrator switch while insisting the scheme’s long-term strategy remains on track.
Healthcare
When it’s your money, who should decide?
As employers hand more responsibility for retirement and healthcare benefits to staff, the industry is rethinking how to balance freedom with better financial decisions.
CMS explains why it rejected GEMS’s bid to lower contribution increase
The CMS argues that a 7.5% increase would have weakened GEMS’s financial sustainability and shifted costs to members in future.
The next frontier for employee benefits is integration
Sanlam’s Benchmark report argues that improving member outcomes increasingly depends on linking financial advice, healthcare, and risk benefits.
Mental health is reshaping the chronic disease equation
New findings suggest emotional well-being now plays a growing role in whether patients with diabetes, cancer, and heart disease stay stable and out of hospital.
The 11-year health gap: what adds – or costs – years of life
Discovery Health’s analysis of 2.7 million medical scheme members shows how earlier intervention, better treatment, and healthier lifestyles are reshaping life expectancy.
Medscheme rejects Bonitas’s explanation for post-transition disruptions
Medscheme says it repeatedly warned Bonitas against a ‘clean-cut’ transition and disputes the scheme’s claim that unresolved legacy issues were behind the service disruptions experienced by members after the administration switch.
Not just inflation: the demographic shift driving medical scheme hikes
Shrinking younger membership is intensifying an ageing risk pool, pushing contributions higher even when hospital use is flat.
Bonitas move: Momentum Health sets out the operational playbook
From broker commissions to digital channels and claims processing, Momentum Health has set out what stakeholders can expect when Bonitas changes administrators.
Investment performance drives PPS member payouts to record levels
The mutual insurer reports R5.56bn in investment returns compared with R1.32bn in operating profit, while higher claims put pressure on underwriting performance.
Sizwe Hosmed: High Court blocks board comeback, new curator installed
The CMS frames the judgment as necessary to protect members, emphasising the scheme is compliant, operational and under close oversight.
New HPCSA rules put patients’ voices first in life-and-death decisions
Updated ethical guidelines give South Africans clearer control over end-of-life choices and tighten safeguards around the use of AI in healthcare.
I am bearish but invest bullish by seizing value opportunities
Ryk de Klerk’s focus has shifted from picking AI ‘winners’ to identifying future ‘survivors’ – and balancing portfolios with undervalued, lower-risk Healthcare and Consumer Staples.
BHF asks Treasury for clarity on plan to phase out medical tax credits
According to the Board of Healthcare Funders, the Department of Health’s presentation indicates the credits will be eliminated by the beginning of 2029.
HFA warns: NHI will slash healthcare, raise taxes, and drain the economy
The Health Funders Association, which represents nearly half of SA’s private healthcare market, is the latest organisation to launch a legal challenge against the NHI Act.
Health practitioners outline constitutional challenge to NHI Act
The SA Medical Association is particularly concerned about the Act’s impact on overburdened healthcare professionals, as well as patients’ ability to access treatment.
Coalition: government’s ‘piecemeal’ healthcare reforms fall short
The Universal Healthcare Access Coalition says the proposed tariff-setting measures for private healthcare side-step essential reforms.
